Some of the most
successful individuals with projects held through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe were already well - known, or nearly so — people like Amanda Palmer, frontwoman for the band the Dresden
Dolls, who reportedly received $ 1.2 million on Kickstarter to fund the creation of a
new album and book, and comic writer / self - published author Ryan North, whose book «To Be or Not To Be» is still reportedly the highest publishing Kickstarter project ever.